Bug 2030190
| Summary: | Firefox 91.3.0-1 Language packs installed at /usr/lib64/firefox/langpacks cannot be used any more | ||||||||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | Reporter: | vanbhule | ||||||
| Component: | firefox | Assignee: | Jan Horak <jhorak> | ||||||
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | Jiri Prajzner <jprajzne> | ||||||
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||||
| Priority: | unspecified | ||||||||
| Version: | 7.9 | CC: | jprajzne, kpfleming, pjasbuti, sbarcomb, tpelka, tpopela, vikpatil | ||||||
| Target Milestone: | rc | Keywords: | Triaged, ZStream | ||||||
| Target Release: | --- | ||||||||
| Hardware: | Unspecified | ||||||||
| OS: | Unspecified | ||||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | If docs needed, set a value | |||||||
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| Last Closed: | 2022-03-10 16:57:10 UTC | Type: | Bug | ||||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||||
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |||||||
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We only set the locales based on the locale variables, ie. it can be overridden by using for example: LC_ALL=de_DE.utf8 firefox We do the same as the rest of the desktop where locales determine the language of the application. Any other methods are not supported (user installing language pack on his own or something similar). I talked to the customer today. The issue that they are reporting is independent of the locale set, which is en_US. What they are reporting is that the xpi language packs in /usr/lib64/firefox/langpacks used to show in the UI as a selectable language in FF ESR 78 (I did not validate this myself). In ESR 91, if you search for language and try to apply German it will fetch the language pack from Mozilla, which they do not want to allow. The workaround that I gave them was to manually install a plugin pointing to the xpi files contained in /usr/lib64/firefox/langpacks. The request is to have a less kludgy way to use the xpi files we ship in /usr/lib64/firefox/langpacks so that the Firefox UI language can be different from the Gnome language without downloading from a 3rd party. With a fresh profile I'm unable to reproduce the state in esr 78 where there's a list of all langpacks from the rpm. It's basically the same as in 91. It must be customer profile specific since we don't install all language packs to the profile. The language packs are located in the /usr/lib64/firefox/langpacks and installed by the /usr/bin/firefox script based on current locale. We use this strategy for several years. If administrator wants to have all langpacks installed for all users and profile they need to put the langpacks into the /usr/lib64/firefox/extensions. See the https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=1846707 as the prove of above statement. Sorry, I was wrong, the langpacks has to be put into the /usr/lib64/firefox/browser/extensions/, this is differ from Thunderbird where it has to be in /usr/lib64/thunderbird/extensions/. rpm -qa | grep firefox firefox-91.6.0-2.el7_9.x86_64 firefox-debuginfo-91.6.0-2.el7_9.x86_6 rpm -ql firefox /etc/firefox /etc/firefox/pref /usr/bin/firefox /usr/lib64/firefox /usr/lib64/firefox/LICENSE /usr/lib64/firefox/application.ini /usr/lib64/firefox/browser/chrome /usr/lib64/firefox/browser/chrome/icons /usr/lib64/firefox/browser/chrome/icons/default /usr/lib64/firefox/browser/chrome/icons/default/default128.png /usr/lib64/firefox/browser/chrome/icons/default/default16.png /usr/lib64/firefox/browser/chrome/icons/default/default32.png /usr/lib64/firefox/browser/chrome/icons/default/default48.png /usr/lib64/firefox/browser/chrome/icons/default/default64.png /usr/lib64/firefox/browser/defaults/preferences /usr/lib64/firefox/browser/extensions /usr/lib64/firefox/browser/extensions/langpack-ach.org.xpi /usr/lib64/firefox/browser/extensions/langpack-af.org.xpi /usr/lib64/firefox/browser/extensions/langpack-an.org.xpi /usr/lib64/firefox/browser/extensions/langpack-ar.org.xpi ... ls /usr/lib64/firefox/browser/extensions/ langpack-ach.org.xpi langpack-es-AR.org.xpi langpack-hi.org.xpi ... i can change the language from within firefox in about:preferences - language settings Since the problem described in this bug report should be resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For information on the advisory (Critical: firefox security and bug fix update), and where to find the updated files, follow the link below. If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report. https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:0824 |
Created attachment 1845192 [details] Firefox-lang screenshot Description of problem: Firefox 91.3.0 does not allow to use language packs installed at /usr/lib64/firefox/langpacks. If we try to change the language of firefox we are force to connect to the internet and download them separately. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): firefox-91.3.0-1.el7_9.x86_64 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. RHEL 7.9GA and update it to the latest. 2. Disconnect internet or ethernet 3. Launch firefox and try to change it's language to German or any other, it will prompt to connect to the internet. Actual results: Forced to connect to the internet. The langpacks are in the rpms that we ship --------- bash-4.2$ rpm -q firefox firefox-91.3.0-1.el7_9.x86_64 bash-4.2$ rpm -ql firefox /etc/firefox /etc/firefox/pref /usr/bin/firefox /usr/lib64/firefox /usr/lib64/firefox/LICENSE /usr/lib64/firefox/application.ini /usr/lib64/firefox/browser/chrome /usr/lib64/firefox/browser/chrome/icons /usr/lib64/firefox/browser/chrome/icons/default /usr/lib64/firefox/browser/chrome/icons/default/default128.png /usr/lib64/firefox/browser/chrome/icons/default/default16.png /usr/lib64/firefox/browser/chrome/icons/default/default32.png /usr/lib64/firefox/browser/chrome/icons/default/default48.png /usr/lib64/firefox/browser/chrome/icons/default/default64.png /usr/lib64/firefox/browser/defaults/preferences ... /usr/lib64/firefox/langpacks /usr/lib64/firefox/langpacks/langpack-ach.org.xpi /usr/lib64/firefox/langpacks/langpack-af.org.xpi /usr/lib64/firefox/langpacks/langpack-an.org.xpi /usr/lib64/firefox/langpacks/langpack-ar.org.xpi /usr/lib64/fir ------------ Expected results: Functionality to use the language packs provided by the rpm Additional info: Screenshot attached for reference.